Chapter Summaries

Spirit Pagoda learned that Di Tian was undergoing his Heavenly Tribulation and rushed to prepare for the chance to claim him as a Soul Spirit. As the lightning neared the power of a nine-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, Yun Ze’s array kept the people and battle armor inside its shield safe.

• Cheng Jin reported the suspected tribulation to Spirit Pagoda headquarters, and Qian Gu Dong Feng sent Qian Gu Die Ting and other experts toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Spirit Pagoda personnel opened the dam’s Energy Shield so the lightning could strike Di Tian without obstruction.
• Yun Ze’s Thunder Resistance Array shielded the group while guiding the lightning to temper seven sets of battle armor.
• Gu Yue Na reassured Di Tian and the others that Yun Ze’s array would hold, while Spirit Pagoda’s observers feared Di Tian could not survive the tribulation.
• Lin Yi judged that the lightning was nearing the strength of a nine-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, but the array remained intact and the area inside its shield stayed calm.

Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na activated the World-Destroyer missile as the heavenly tribulation weakened, while Qian Gu Die Ting arrived with Spirit Pagoda reinforcements to investigate Di Tian’s unseen situation. The tribulation ended, and Qian Gu Die Ting’s group found a strange Energy Shield in the ruined forest.

• Gu Yue Na activated the World-Destroyer missile and told Yun Ze they had ten minutes before it detonated.
• Di Tian concealed the group inside the Energy Shield while Cheng Jin ordered the dam’s forces to prepare for an attack on him.
• Qian Gu Die Ting arrived at the dam, questioned Cheng Jin about Di Tian, and flew toward the forest with the Titled Douluo.
• The final bolt ended the heavenly tribulation, leaving the forest devastated by lightning and fire.
• Qian Gu Die Ting and his group reached the ruined area and stared at the Energy Shield.

A God-Slaying Weapon detonated in the Star Dou Great Forest, destroying the forest and Metal Embankment and killing the nearby Spirit Transfer Pagoda experts. Badly wounded, Qian Gu Die Ting tried to contact headquarters, but a mysterious man in black appeared and told him the call could not get through.

• Qian Gu Die Ting sensed danger from the purple energy inside the Energy Shield and fled as the God-Slaying Weapon exploded.
• The blast annihilated the Star Dou Great Forest and Metal Embankment, killing Cheng Jin, five Titled Douluo, and the six Spirit Transfer Pagoda experts.
• Qian Gu Die Ting used his Four-Word Battle Armor and Quasi-God strength to escape, but the explosion severely injured him.
• Qian Gu Die Ting recognized the blast as the work of a God-Slaying Weapon and flew toward Spirit Transfer Pagoda Headquarters to report it.
• Qian Gu Die Ting found that his communicator had no signal, and a middle-aged man dressed in black appeared before him.

After the God-Slaying Bomb devastated the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Tian and the other soul beasts cornered the gravely wounded Qian Gu Die Ting. They crippled him and kept him alive for interrogation, leaving the Spirit Pagoda’s secrets within their reach.

• Di Tian, Bear Lord, Ten Thousand Demons King, and Lin Yi surrounded Qian Gu Die Ting while Yun Ze, Gu Yue Na, and Bi Ji watched from above.
• Qian Gu Die Ting realized that Yun Tian was Di Tian and that the Dragon Phoenix Hall’s powerful figures were soul beasts in human form.
• Di Tian attacked Qian Gu Die Ting, and Lin Yi struck him from behind, shattering his weakened Four-Word Battle Armor.
• Di Tian seized Qian Gu Die Ting and shattered his core, leaving him powerless.
• Di Tian said they would interrogate Qian Gu Die Ting for Spirit Pagoda secrets, and Bi Ji treated his injuries to keep him alive.

Di Tian and the others extracted the Spirit Transfer Pagoda’s secrets from Qian Gu Die Ting before killing him, then the destruction of the Star Dou Great Forest exposed the theft and use of a God-Slaying Weapon. The Federation ordered an investigation and tightened security around the remaining weapon, Eternal Heaven Kingdom.

• Di Tian and the others searched the ruined Metal Embankment, killed the surviving witnesses, and returned to Dragon Phoenix Hall with Yun Ze and the others.
• Di Tian and the others used a Truth Serum Pill to make Qian Gu Die Ting reveal the Spirit Transfer Pagoda’s structure, Holy Spirit Cult ties, controlled Small Spaces, and four Soul Spirit research bases, then killed him.
• Investigators from the Spirit Transfer Pagoda found the Metal Embankment and Star Dou Great Forest reduced to ruins, with everyone at the base dead.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng learned of the destruction and suspected the thieves had used the stolen World Destroyer Bomb, while vowing revenge.
• The Federation Speaker learned that two God-Slaying Weapons had been stolen and ordered an investigation, an inspection of the Star Dou Great Forest, and protection for Eternal Heaven Kingdom.

The Spirit Transfer Pagoda assessed the catastrophic losses caused by the God-Slaying Weapon explosion in the Star Dou Great Forest and publicly demanded an explanation from the Federation Government. As suspicion fell on the government, Qian Gu Dong Feng argued that it was unlikely to be responsible, concealing his own role in the stolen shells’ original plot.

• Political rivals leaked that two God-Slaying Weapons had been stolen, provoking public fear and demands for government accountability.
• The Spirit Transfer Pagoda publicly challenged the Federation Government over the explosion in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• At a high-level meeting, Qiangu Zhangting reported that the Metal Embankment, more than two thousand soul masters, twelve Titled Douluo, and former Pagoda Master Qian Gu Die Ting had been lost.
• Qiangu Zhangting said more than a thousand Soul Spirits, including Di Tian, were presumed dead, while no soul bones had yet been found.
• Spirit Transfer Pagoda members accused the Federation Government of arranging the attack, but Qian Gu Dong Feng said the government was unlikely to be responsible.

Qian Gu Dong Feng and the Spirit Pagoda searched for the culprit behind the God-Slaying Bomb attack on the Star Dou Great Forest, while Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect worried about the missing bomb. The Dragon Phoenix Hall continued its business undisturbed as the Federation Government struggled to manage the accumulating crises.

• Qian Gu Dong Feng and the Spirit Pagoda's senior officials considered the Federation Government, Shrek Academy, the Tang Sect, and the Dragon Phoenix Hall as possible culprits, but reached no conclusion.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng wondered why no soul rings remained after the explosion, then dismissed the possibility that the soul beasts had vanished rather than died.
• Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect felt relieved by the Spirit Pagoda's losses but feared the missing God-Slaying Bomb might strike Shrek City, so the city strengthened its defenses and inspected arrivals.
• Ghost Emperor of the Holy Spirit Cult angrily lamented that one of the three God-Slaying Bombs had been used, while the Federation Government became overwhelmed by investigations and public pressure.
• The Dragon Phoenix Hall resumed business, sold hundreds of pills each day, and remained relaxed as Yun Ze and the others watched the news from inside.

Wu Bo, Xing Zhuo, and Xu Lin collected their Hundred Year Longevity Pills from Dragon Phoenix Hall and pledged to help the hall in the future. As Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na drew them into discussing the stolen God-Slaying Weapons, they began to suspect an insider at the Federation Research Institute.

• Gu Yue Na gave Wu Bo, Xing Zhuo, and Xu Lin their Hundred Year Longevity Pills, and Gu Ming confirmed the pills were genuine.
• Wu Bo, Xing Zhuo, and Xu Lin promised to help Dragon Phoenix Hall if it ever needed them.
• Yun Ze asked about the theft, and Gu Ming explained that World Destroyer and Heaven Devourer had been stolen after the Star Dou Great Forest explosion.
• Wu Bo and Xing Zhuo described their search of surveillance footage and considered whether the thief had erased recordings.
• Yun Ze suggested investigating the people responsible for the surveillance system, while Gu Yue Na asked how the thief had learned the bombs’ location.
• Xu Lin, Gu Ming, and Wu Bo concluded that the thief likely had help from an insider, possibly a core researcher.

Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na discussed guiding the Federation Research Institute toward the Spirit Pagoda’s role in the pill theft while keeping Dragon Phoenix Hall’s innocence clear. Yun Ze arranged transactions with the Four Great Legions and Spirit Pagoda, and Gu Yue Na sent Bi Ji to contact them.

• After Gu Ming and the others left Dragon Phoenix Hall, Gu Yue Na and Yun Ze discussed whether their hints would lead the investigators to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Yun Ze said he would refine more Truth Serum Pills and told Gu Yue Na to have Bi Ji invite the Four Great Legions to Mingdu to trade for the pills discreetly.
• Yun Ze advised Gu Yue Na to keep dealing with the Spirit Pagoda as usual so their existing relationship would not seem suspicious.
• Gu Yue Na went to ask Bi Ji to contact the Legion Commanders of the Four Great Legions and the people from the Spirit Pagoda.

The Legion Commanders and Spirit Pagoda families set out for Mingdu to obtain Hundred Year Longevity Pills, while the Thousand Ancient Family struggled with its losses and waning authority. At the Dragon Phoenix Hall, Yun Ze forged six rare metals into Spirit Forged Metal and continued hammering toward Soul Forging.

• The Legion Commanders secretly left their camps for Mingdu to exchange for Hundred Year Longevity Pills.
• Spirit Pagoda families mobilized funds and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirits for the pills despite Qian Gu Dong Feng's warning that the Spirit Pagoda needed resources after its losses.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng reluctantly allowed the families to proceed, as the Thousand Ancient Family had lost seven Title-level experts and its influence had weakened.
• Leng Yaozhu prepared funds and a Soul Spirit and set out for Mingdu.
• Yun Ze fused six rare metals with three drops of blood and used three hammer strikes to complete top-grade Spirit Forging.
• Yun Ze continued hammering the Spirit Forged Metal, aiming to achieve Soul Forging.

Yun Ze successfully forged two pieces of Eighth Grade Soul Forged Metal and discovered that the world's rules were suppressing attempts to create another Divine Craftsman. He left the workshop determined to challenge that restriction after reaching the Soul Emperor realm.

• Yun Ze combined his Soul Power, Bloodline Power, and Layered Hammer technique to complete Soul Refinement on a breastplate, whose metal developed childlike intelligence and became attached to him.
• Yun Ze restored his Soul Power and forged a second piece of Eighth Grade Soul Forged Metal in the shape of a backplate for his future Three-Word Battle Armor.
• Yun Ze sensed the world's rules suppressing him and the metal, and concluded that they no longer permitted a second Divine Craftsman to emerge.
• Yun Ze left the workshop, resolved to attempt becoming a Divine Craftsman once he reached the Soul Emperor realm.

Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na met Leng Yaozhu at the Dragon Phoenix Hall to exchange four Hundred Year Longevity Pills for payment and four powerful Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits. Their reunion ended with their teacher-disciple bond acknowledged as severed, while the Soul Spirits remained sealed in their balls.

• Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na went to the seventh-floor reception room, where Leng Yaozhu and four Leng Family Titled Douluo were waiting.
• Gu Yue Na called Leng Yaozhu “Teacher,” but Leng Yaozhu told her their teacher-disciple bond had ended and that they should use each other’s names.
• Yun Ze handed Leng Yaozhu four Hundred Year Longevity Pills, which she and her companions inspected and confirmed.
• Leng Yaozhu paid Gu Yue Na four savings cards, each containing eight billion Federal Currency.
• Leng Yaozhu presented four Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits—the Imperial Phoenix Divine Eagle, Silver Moon Dragon Jiao, Lion-Tiger Beast, and Three-Headed Gale Magic Wolf—and warned that they were dangerous if released.

After bringing the remaining soul beasts into Dragon God Space, Gu Yue Na worried that its cramped, barren conditions would harm them and asked Yun Ze how to improve it. Yun Ze proposed merging Dragon God Space with another Small Space, while the chapter also described how the soul beasts were fed and kept from fighting.

• After Leng Yaozhu and the others left with the Hundred Year Longevity Pill, Gu Yue Na brought Yun Ze and the others into Dragon God Space to see the relocated soul beasts.
• Gu Yue Na released four Hundred-Thousand-Year soul spirits, then used her Quasi-Dragon God Bloodline to quiet them and ordered them to behave.
• Gu Yue Na worried that the soul beasts could not endure the sealed, barren space for long and asked Yun Ze for a way to make it open and livable.
• Yun Ze suggested merging Dragon God Space with an existing Small Space, and Gu Yue Na asked whether Dragon Valley Space could be used.
• The narration explained that the soul beasts were forbidden from killing one another and that Di Tian discreetly bought nearly a million jin of meat each day to feed them.

Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na decided to seize the Spirit Pagoda’s smaller Spirit Transmission Space so they could fuse it with their own space. Di Tian located it in a canyon and prepared to enter, but the chapter ended before he acted.

• Yun Ze explained that fusing Dragon Valley Space would take too long while Gu Yue Na was still a Soul Emperor, so they considered other Small Spaces.
• Gu Yue Na recalled the two Small Spaces Qian Gu Die Ting had described, and Yun Ze proposed taking one or both to expand their space.
• Yun Ze chose Spirit Transmission Space as their target because the Spirit Pagoda had fewer people stationed there and the space was relatively small.
• Yun Ze sent Di Tian to investigate Spirit Transmission Space in the southwest, while he and Gu Yue Na spent the evening walking through Mingdu.
• Di Tian found five tents above Spirit Transmission Space in a canyon and considered dealing with the people there before forcing open a Space Passage.

Di Tian observed the Spirit Pagoda’s access to the Spirit Transmission Space and returned to Dragon Phoenix Hall with what he had learned. Meanwhile, Yun Ze traded Hundred Year Longevity Pills with Yue Zhengen and endured his awkward attempts at small talk as the general sought to build a relationship.

• Di Tian watched the Spirit Pagoda camp overnight, then told Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na what he had learned about the Spirit Transmission Space.
• Yun Ze ordered Di Tian to observe the area for three more days, while Lin San went to buy food and Yun Ze forged a piece of his battle armor.
• Yue Zhengen arrived in Mingdu and exchanged two Hundred Year Longevity Pills for two savings cards containing fifteen billion Federal Currency each.
• Yue Zhengen stayed to chat and praised Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na, trying to establish a closer relationship with Dragon Phoenix Hall.

Yue Zhengen asked Dragon Phoenix Hall for guidance on condensing a divine position and offered a divine artifact in return. Yun Ze inferred from Yue Zhengen’s reactions that the Yue Family’s Angel martial soul descended from Spirit Hall’s Six-Winged Angel.

• Yue Zhengen sent his companions outside and asked Dragon Phoenix Hall to let him seek Yun Tian’s guidance after Yun Tian recovered.
• Yue Zhengen explained that he wanted to learn how to condense a divine position, believing Yun Tian’s experience in creating one made him the best person to ask.
• Gu Yue Na questioned the request, and Yue Zhengen admitted it was important to the Yue Family and promised compensation.
• Yue Zhengen offered a divine artifact in exchange for Yun Tian’s guidance.
• Yun Ze asked whether the Yue Family had once produced a god, then concluded from Yue Zhengen’s reactions that the family descended from Spirit Hall’s Angel Family.

Yue Zhengen proposed trading a pseudo-divine artifact for Yun Tian’s guidance and offered a low-cost pill-distribution partnership with Dragon Phoenix Hall. Yun Ze and the others agreed the sales arrangement was promising, but planned to supply pills only after training more refiners, using the partnership to build ties with the Yue Family and the Southern Legion.

• Gu Yue Na learned that the Yue Family’s so-called divine artifacts were not true god-used artifacts and declined to accept them as payment for guidance.
• Yue Zhengen offered to distribute Dragon Phoenix Hall’s pills through Yue Family stores for one percent of sales revenue while covering shipping, packaging, and advertising costs.
• Yun Ze said Dragon Phoenix Hall would discuss the proposed cooperation before giving Yue Zhengen a decision.
• After Yue Zhengen left, Bi Ji noted that Dragon Phoenix Hall had no surplus pills, and Yun Ze proposed training more refiners before supplying the Yue Family in several years.
• Yun Ze explained that forming the partnership early would strengthen ties with the Yue Family and help win over the Southern Legion.

Yun Ze prepared to delay responding to Yue Zhengen and discussed divine-position knowledge with Bi Ji, Lin Yi, and Gu Yue Na. After Dong Zi'an purchased a pill for his father-in-law, Yun Ze's group proposed sponsoring the Western Legion and challenged the unfair military funding that held back Dong Zi'an's ambitions.

• Yun Ze told Bi Ji to select wood- and fire-element soul beasts for pill-refining training and give suitable candidates Transformation Pills.
• Yun Ze said he would share his understanding of condensing a divine position, and the group agreed to leave Yue Zhengen waiting a few days before answering his proposals.
• Bi Ji and Lin Yi received Dong Zi'an, the Western Legion's Limit-ranked commander, who came to buy a pill for his father-in-law.
• Yun Ze and the others offered to sponsor the Western Legion, and Gu Yue Na pointed out that the Military Department allocated far more funding to three other legions.
• Dong Zi'an grew wary as Gu Yue Na argued that the funding disparity prevented the Western Legion from catching up with the Federation's strongest legions.

Gu Yue Na offered Dong Zi'an’s Western Legion twenty billion Federal Currency annually in exchange for its support in Dragon Phoenix Hall’s bid for parliamentary seats. Dong Zi'an agreed to consider the proposal, and Gu Yue Na later discussed which other legions they might win over with Yun Ze.

• Dong Zi'an accused Lin Yi and Gu Yue Na of dividing the military, but Gu Yue Na argued that the Western Legion lacked sufficient funding to compete with the Central Army Group and the Sea God Legion.
• Gu Yue Na offered to provide the Western Legion twenty billion Federal Currency each year without interfering in how Dong Zi'an used it.
• Gu Yue Na explained that Dragon Phoenix Hall wanted the Western Legion’s support in the Federation Election because Shrek’s political influence had enabled it to target the hall.
• Dong Zi'an said he needed time to consider the proposal and asked Gu Yue Na to confirm that Dragon Phoenix Hall would not control the funds; she assured him it would not.
• After Dong Zi'an left, Gu Yue Na told Yun Ze that they might also win over the Southern and Northern Legions, though the Northern Sea Legion would be difficult to persuade.

Gu Yue Na and Yun Ze concluded that the Shen Family would not fully support Dragon Phoenix Hall, so they decided to maintain normal relations with the Northern Sea Legion. Qian Gu Dong Feng then exchanged two Hundred Year Longevity Pills for soul spirits, leaving Yun Ze with a violent lightning-type ferocious beast soul spirit.

• Gu Yue Na explained that the Shen Family’s ties to Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Academy made it difficult to win over, and Yun Ze agreed that it would not abandon the neutral faction.
• Yun Ze said Dragon Phoenix Hall should maintain normal relations with the Northern Sea Legion instead of seeking its sponsorship.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng arrived at Dragon Phoenix Hall and exchanged ten billion plus a Hundred Thousand Year soul spirit for one Hundred Year Longevity Pill, and a two-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beast soul spirit for another.
• Gu Yue Na inferred that the Spirit Pagoda was short on funds after Qian Gu Dong Feng used a ferocious beast soul spirit to pay for a pill.
• Yun Ze examined the orange Soul Spirit Ball and sensed the ferocious soul spirit’s destructive nature as dark-purple lightning flickered across its surface.